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Type Design Intensive

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $375
  • 944 Market St, San Francisco, CA
  • 12 hours over 2 sessions

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  • $375
  • PSY/OPS Type Foundry @ 944 Market St Studio 504, San Francisco, CA 94102
  • 12 hours over 2 sessions
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this design class:

The Type Design Intensive is a comprehensive two day workshop exploring and demystifying each phase of the font development process, from concept to completion. The session covers analog and digital processes, best practices and workflows, clever tricks that save time while improving quality, and much more. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or have some font development experience, the Type Design Intensive will provide the visual and technical insights you need to jumpstart and realize your font projects.

KEY TOPICS

The Type Design Intensive includes more than 40 lesson modules with focus on these topics:
  • Optimizing and importing analog art
  • Prepping Illustrator vectors for font development
  • Key principles of letter composition
  • Vector construction standards and techniques
  • Optimal workflows and software configurations
  • Letterfit principles and practice
  • Common font development issues and how to avoid them
  • Basic font mastering and iterative proofing
  • Licensing and distribution options for digital type
SOFTWARE: We’ll use FontLab Studio 5 for font development.

PLEASE BRING: A Mac or Windows laptop with FontLab Studio 5 pre-installed (demo version at minimum; full version if possible). If you have existing artwork you’d like to use for the workshop, we encourage you to bring it in. We’ll help you get it set up.

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Basic to Intermediate.

APPROACH: The workshop sessions consist of informational briefs, demos and walkthroughs, and hands-on exercises. This workshop packs in a lot of information, but it is conducted in an easygoing, conversational manner. Open Q&A is encouraged throughout.

Refund Policy

For cancellations made seven or more days prior the registered class, Alphabetic Order will refund Registrants the full amount minus a $25 administrative fee. For cancellations made within seven days of a class, Alphabetic Order will issue a 50% refund and offer a 25% credit toward another class scheduled to take place within one year of the initial registration. The 25% credit is non-transferable.

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(The) Alphabetic Order

Alphabetic Order is a San Francisco study space dedicated to type design and lettering. We offer workshops, meetups and immersive learning opportunities. 

Alphabetic Order is the educational component of PSY/OPS, a design studio specializing in font development for the tech and interactive sectors....

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Conveniently located near Powell Street BART and MUNI. There are several parking garages in the area: Mission/Fifth, Ellis/O’Farrell. The nearest is across the street on Mason, at Hotel Metropolis ($15–$25 flat rate valet). Long-term street parking is not available in this neighborhood.

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